U.S Army Armored Vehicles

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Textron Marine & Land Systems has agreed tobuild another 423 armored security vehicles for the U.S. Army. The Textron Inc. unit says the value of the contract is $461million. The vehicles will be built at Textron's plant in NewOrleans. The contract includes an option to buy up to 272 morevehicles at a price of up to $239 million. The Army earlier purchased 256 of the vehicles from Textron. The vehicles ate in the ASV family, which are used in scouting,personnel transport, reconnaissance, convoy protection andperimeter security.